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, Chair and President, SeaWeb
Dawn received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School in Los Angeles and studied international human rights and humanitarian law at the International Institute of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France and the Henri Dunant Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Previous positions include political director for American Oceans Campaign, associate chief executive officer and chief operating officer for Oceana, and was appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency, where she served as associate deputy administrator, chief of staff and senior policy advisor. Dawn also served as co-chair of the Clean Water Network Steering Committee and is founding member of the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands.
- , Treasurer and President, Resolute Capital Management, L.L.C.
Nicholas is the president of Resolute Capital Management, a Washington, D.C., investment firm. He has more than 12 years of experience as a portfolio manager and securities analyst. Prior to founding Resolute Capital Management, Nicholas was a principal and director of research of the Washington, D.C. investment firm Farr, Miller & Washington and was an equity analyst with T. Rowe Price, where he worked on the $3 billion Growth Stock Fund. He was also an equity analyst and director of Institutional Services for Select Equity Group, Inc., in New York City. Nicholas is a member of the Washington Association of Money Managers and Washington Society of Investment Analysts. Nicholas also chairs the Finance Committee of the House of Mercy, a charity that oversees a Head Start and Early Head Start program in Washington, D.C. Having grown up on the coast of Maine, where he continues to spend his summers, Nicholas has a keen interest in ocean activities like sailing and fishing.
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, Former Partner & Senior Counsel, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge
Dick was a former partner of the Washington, D.C. law firm Shaw Pittman from 1984 to 2000. He was the managing partner of the D.C. office of the Georgia law firm, Alston & Bird and Associate Chief Counsel to the U.S. Comptroller of the Currency. His practice was concentrated in corporate, financial and nonprofit organization matters. He has served as a director of The Washington Corporation and the Women’s National Bank and is currently an advisory director of Fort Sill National Bank. Dick has served in many capacities with nonprofit organizations, including director of the Episcopal Church Foundation, a trustee of Mt. Vernon College, Chairman of the Development Council of Williams College, senior warden of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, chairman of St. Patrick’s Episcopal Day School and general counsel of Episcopal Senior Ministries. He is currently president of the House of Mercy, a trustee of the Key School in Annapolis, Maryland, and is helping to finance the construction of an Episcopal Boy’s School in Anacostia, Washington, D.C.
- Director, State of Florida Institute of Oceanography
As Director of the Florida Institute of Oceanography, John Ogden oversees operation of two oceanographic research ships and a marine laboratory. Since 1991, he has served as the Secretary of Commerce’s appointee for science to the Advisory Council of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary and has served as an advisor to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on ecosystem management of coastal zones. He is the newly elected president of the International Society for Reef Studies and a board member of the World Wildlife Fund. He is involved in policy and research directed at the conservation of tropical and sub-tropical biodiversity with NOAA, National Science Foundation, the Department of State, The World Bank, UNESCO and numerous other entities. He served as director of the West Indies Laboratory in St. Croix in the Virgin Islands in the 1980s. He helped found the CARICOMP network of marine laboratories, parks and reserves and presently serves as the co-chair of its Steering Committee. John has published more than 70 scientific papers, has contributed to numerous books and has produced several television films on tropical ecosystems. Most recently, he has used his background as a marine ecologist specializing in the study of coral reefs and associated tropical ecosystems to integrate science and management of marine resources.
- , Professor, Environment Department, University of York
Callum is a marine conservation biologist, oceanographer, author and research scholar in the Environment Department of the University of York. His extensive work is dedicated to examining the impact of human activity on marine ecosystems, particularly on coral reefs. Callum Roberts is the author of the recently published, highly acclaimed book The Unnatural History of the Sea. Roberts has served on a U.S. National Research Council Committee on Marine Protected Areas and has also been a member of the Marine Reserves Working Group. Roberts has also been very active with the Coral Reef Fish Specialist Group of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). He was awarded a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation in 2000 to tackle obstacles to implementing marine reserves, and in 2001 he was awarded a Hardy Fellowship in Conservation Biology at Harvard University.
- , Managing Director and Co-owner, STURGEON, S.C.E.A.
Alan established STURGEON, S.C.E.A., a caviar company based in southwestern France, in 1995. Prior to the inception of Sturgeon S.C.E.A., he was general manager of Stolt Sea Farm, S.A. At Stolt, Alan oversaw the company’s turbot farming in France, Spain and Portugal and its sea bass and sea bream farming in Greece. From 1982 to 1986, he served as a board member of the World Aquaculture Society and was a founding member and president of the European Aquaculture Society from 1984 to 1986. Alan has more than 30 years of experience in the aquaculture industry, including being the pioneer of turbot farming, and he is the author of more than 40 scientific papers and publications on aquaculture.
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